Designing Assessment Tasks: responsive and extensive writing

Paraphrasing:

This is to ensure that learners understand the importance to paraphrase properly. To say something in your own words.

For this test evaluators use holistic scales, or analytic scales.

Guided Question and Answer:

A lower-order task in itself, which has a pedagogical benefit, to guide a learner without dictating the form of the output.

 

Note: the teacher must use prompts.

Paragraph construction tasks:

They have the following procedure:

Strategic Options:

1: Attending a task: the context is completely open-ended. The writer must fulfill the task based on a set criteria.

For example:

Writing Reports:

Summaries of readings:

Responses to readings/lectures/videos.

Narration, description, persuasion/argument and exposition:

Interpreting Statistical, graphic and tabular data:

Library Research Paper:


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At responsive and extensive levels of writing, three major approaches to scoring writing performance are commonly used by test designers: holistic, primary trait, and analytical. Holistic Scoring Each point on a holistic scale is given a systematic set of descriptors, and the reader-evaluator matches an overall impression with the descriptors, and the reader-evaluator matches an overall impression with the descriptors to arrive at a score. Advantages fast evaluation, relatively high inter-rater reliability, the fact that scores represent “standards” that are easily interpreted by the lay persons, the fact that scores tend to emphasize the writer’s strengths, applicability to writing across many different disciplines. Disadvantages One score masks differences across the subskills within each score. No diagnostic information is available (no washback potential). The scale may not apply equally well to all genres of writing. Raters need to be extensively trained to use...
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